South Shore freight motor 802 heads east past the Hammond, Ind., station

An Ann Arbor Railroad grain special creeps across the bridge spanning the Huron River in the railroad's namesake city. The current railroad with the name runs 50 miles between Ann Arbor and Toledo... (more)

The Pennsy's merger with rival New York Central is only a few months old, so GG-1 4852 still wears its native paint as it awaits its next assignment.

CSX signalmen test new signals that replace Baltimore & Ohio color position lights in the background. Track construction in the area overnight caused a traffic backup, so the crew works while tri-... (more)

Derailment put three Alcos on the ground.

Bitterly cold weather has caused Amtrak to cancel or delay a number of morning trains on the Northeast Corridor. A large crowd of passengers is waiting patiently for their chance to board.

The Acela crosses the Anacostia River on final approach to Union Station.

CSX trains approach the southern end of Benning Yard over the Anacostia River on what is arguably the smallest vertical lift bridge. Although this part of the 9-mile-long Potomac tributary is rare... (more)

Look closely and you can see trains on four levels

Mopac units snake a northbound coal train below the Mississippi River limestone bluffs on the Frisco's River Subdivision

How friends took pictures of friends in the days before selfies.

Engineer Steve Wickersham leans out to grab orders as the Chessie Safety Special returns to East St. Louis from an excursion to Flora, Ill.

History on a hardhat. We're on the former Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad right-of-way. The GHH was chartered in 1853, and through mergers and acquisitions became the joint property of t... (more)

Amtrak's Eagle has arrived from Dallas in the east (we're looking eastward), turned onto the north-south tracks, and backed into Fort Worth's former Santa Fe station. Now it's under way again, cro... (more)